DC INVENTORY OF HISTORIC SITES M M Street Bridge over Rock Creek (1929): see Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway M Street High School (Perry School) 128 M Street, NW One of the nation's first public high schools for African-American students, founded in 1870 as the Preparatory High School for Negro Youth; important benchmark in development of the city's educational system; represents struggle by African-American population for quality education, despite great disparities in facilities, grounds, architectural design, and size in the dual school system; precursor to Dunbar High School (established 1916); rigorous curriculum and exceptional faculty due to limited professional opportunities for African-Americans elsewhere; produced high proportion of college graduates and numerous prominent educators and public figures, including Carter G. Woodson; principals included Francis L. Cardozo, Sr., Robert H. Terrell, Anna J. Cooper; built 1890-91; architectural plans by the office of Building Inspector Thomas Entwistle (approved by Edward Clark, Architect of the Capitol); DC designation November 21, 1978, NR listing October 23, 1986; DC ownership MacArthur Theater (and Lobby) 4859 MacArthur Boulevard, NW This large neighborhood movie house is characteristic of the theaters that were once prominent in the city's outlying commercial centers; such places of popular entertainment, convenient by car and removed from downtown congestion, help illustrate the city's social history and suburban expansion; built at the close of World War II, the MacArthur typifies the moderne style of architecture; it is the work of John J. Zink, noted for his technical innovations and the design of more than 200 motion picture theaters throughout the Mid- Atlantic states; it reflects the influence of modernism in both design and materials; one story, irregular shape, red brick with limestone frontispiece and streamlines, curved aluminum marquee, and frameless glass doors allowing an open flow from sidewalk to lobby (which features marble paneling, ramped terrazzo floor, aluminum trim, and cove lighting); built 1945; DC designation June 26, 1997 MacFeely, Robert, House: see Arts Club of Washington Mackall Square 1633 29th Street, NW Estate with one-room deep main house and Greek Revival Ionic portico built c. 1820 for Benjamin Mackall; rear wing mid-18th century; DC listing November 8, 1964; HABS DC-164; within Georgetown HD Mackall-Worthington House 3406 R Street, NW Built 1820 for Leonard Mackall; DC listing November 8, 1964; within Georgetown HD The Mackenzie (A.B. Mullett & Co., 1916) at 221 Constitution Avenue NE: see Capitol Hill Historic District The Macklin (Mihran Mesrobian, 1939) at 2911 Newark Street NW: see Cleveland Park Historic District Madison, Dolly, House: see Cutts-Madison House Main Gate, Navy Yard: see Washington Navy Yard Historic District Main, Thomas, House: see Whitehaven Malaysian Chancery (ca. 1960) at 2401 S Street NW: see Massachusetts Avenue and Sheridan-Kalorama Historic Districts The Mall: see The Plan of the City of Washington (Part of Original Appropriation 2; Reservations 3 through 6). The Mall’s present formal, iconic appearance is largely a 20th-century creation based on the McMillan Commission’s interpretation of the L’Enfant Plan, and represents perhaps the most significant accomplishment of the Commission. HABS DC-678 Manhattan Laundry 1326-46 Florida Avenue, NW DC INVENTORY OF HISTORIC SITES Complex of vernacular and designed commercial structures representing more than 50 years of commercial growth; illustrates expansion of urban core and industrial development along Florida Avenue; notable expression of commercial wealth; originally housed the traction facility for streetcar company chartered in 1862; converted to printing plant in 1892 and laundry in 1905; DC designation June 19, 1991, NR listing November 21, 1994; within Greater U Street HD West Building (Washington & Georgetown Railroad Company Car Barn): Built 1877, John B. Brady, architect), steam plant (built 1908, altered c. 1914 and 1923), and addition (built 1926, A.S.J. Atkinson, architect) South Building: Stable and warehouse (built 1911) East Building: Includes rug cleaning plant and garage/dry cleaning facility (built 1936, Alexander M. Pringle, architect); and Administrative Offices (built 1936-37, Bedford Brown, architect; among the city's finest Art Deco designs; extensive use of glass block, enameled metal panels, and other innovative materials in classically-inspired facade) The Maples (William Mayne Duncanson House; Friendship House) 619 D Street, SE Built 1795-96 (William Lovering, architect); enlarged 1936; DC listing November 8, 1964, NR listing January 18, 1973; HABS DC-5; within Capitol Hill HD Guglielmo Marconi Memorial 16th and Lamont Streets NW The Art Deco monument to Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), the inventor of the radio, was donated by public subscription and erected in 1941. The gilded bronze bust of Marconi is set on a pedestal in front of a granite shaft that supports an allegorical female figure of the Wave soaring above a globe and clouds. The monument is the work of Italian-American sculptor Attilio Piccirilli and architect Joseph Freedlander. DC designation February 22, 2007; NR listing October 12, 2007; within Mount Pleasant HD; US ownership; see Bibliography (Goode, Washington Sculpture) Maret School: see Woodley The Margaret (Harry Wardman/Nicholas Grimm, 1903) at 1809-11 Columbia Road NW: see Washington Heights Historic District Marine Barracks Historic District Bounded by 8th, 9th, G, and I Streets, SE Nation's oldest continuously active Marine Corps installation, central to Marine Corps tradition and history; built on site selected by Thomas Jefferson; designed as the permanent home of the Marine Corps Commandant and barracks for 500 men and their officers; Marine Corps headquarters from 1801 to 1901; home of Marine Band (the "President's Own") since 1801; associated with many historical figures including Commodore Joshua Barney, General Archibald Henderson, John Philip Sousa, and notable detainees; quadrangle of buildings surrounding a central parade ground; includes approximately a dozen buildings built 1801-1935; DC listing November 8, 1964, NR listing December 27, 1972, NHL designation May 11, 1976; within Capitol Hill HD; US ownership Marine Barracks and Band Hall 9th & I Streets, SE Two major components (old Marine Barracks and Band Hall) of a unified composition of military buildings built 1902-06 (Hornblower & Marshall, architects), replacing original wooden barracks dating from 1801-06 (George Hadfield, architect); 490-foot-long Barracks defines east side of parade ground; 2 stories, glazed red-orange brick with limestone trim, hipped roof, arcaded loggia, and crenellated central pavilion; similar Band Hall forms south side of grounds; other structures in complex include 5 Officers' Quarters, Sentry House, and continuous iron fence; DC listing November 8, 1964, NR listing January 4, 1973, within Marine Barracks and Capitol Hill HDs; US ownership DC INVENTORY OF HISTORIC SITES Marine Corps Commandant’s House 801 G Street, SE Only structure to survive from the original Marine Barracks, and one of few public buildings to survive the 1814 burning of Washington; built 1801-05 (George Hadfield, architect); official residence of the Marine Corps Commandant since 1805; distinguished example of early Federal design; 2-1/2 story brick town house with contiguous bow rooms facing parade ground; enlarged in 1840; mansard roof with hooded dormers added in 1891; addition 1934; DC listing November 8, 1964, NR listing August 14, 1973; HABS DC-134; within Marine Barracks and Capitol Hill HDs; US ownership Marine Hospital Service, Hygienic Laboratory: see Public Health and Marine Hospital Service Marion Park (Reservation 18): see The Plan of the City of Washington. The rectangular park at South Carolina Avenue and 5th Street was first graded and planted in 1885, although the present layout dates from 1964. It was named in honor of the distinguished South Carolina Revolutionary War soldier Francis Marion, nicknamed the Swamp Fox. HABS DC-679 Market Square and Indiana Plaza (Reservations 35, 36, 36A): see The Plan of the City of Washington Market Square, the open space at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Indiana Avenues, was first improved when a market was constructed on the adjacent Appropriation No. 7 in 1802. Reservation 36, on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 8th Streets, was enclosed by the 1850s, and the statue of Winfield Scott Hancock located there in 1896. The statue of John Rawlins was located on Reservation 34, west of 9th Street, in about 1889, but this reservation was eliminated for construction of the Federal Triangle in 1932. Reservation 35, on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, was combined with the National Archives site in 1937, and in 1965 it became the site of the simple monument suggested by Franklin D. Roosevelt as his memorial. Reservation 36A, east of 7th Street and now known as Indiana Plaza, was established in 1904. The street known as Market Space along the north side of the square was closed in 1979, and the present park and Navy Memorial were built in 1987-91. HABS DC-691; see also Hancock Statue, Rawlins Statue, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Marlatt, Charles L., House (1908-09) at 1521 16th Street NW: see Sixteenth Street Historic District and Bibliography (Sixteenth Street Architecture II) The Marlboro and the Montgomery (Louis Krauss, 1900) at 514 and 512 U Street